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Amanda Chadwick

Amanda is an experienced speaker specialising in all areas of employment law, health & safety and employee wellbeing.

Based in North Wales - Amanda Chadwick is an experienced and well known speaker, specialising in all areas of employment law, Health & Safety law and employee wellbeing. Amanda has worked as a successful, presenter/broadcaster/ author for over twenty five years advising tens of thousands of business owners with everyday issues in employment and health and safety law, by representing at tribunal, mediating, mentoring, presenting, writing and blogging.

Amanda’s past has involved working in the media, developing KPI’s, driving businesses with personally designed incentive programmes, developing training packages, holding motivational conference’s and keeping business owners updated via her webinars and social media.

Amanda is proud to hold relationships with and speaks for many associations, charities, voluntary organisations, business federations and networking groups. It is with this work that she can be seen hosting award ceremonies, International Women’s day, speaking as an inspirational woman, heard on business radio slots and writing articles for business publications.

Jill Coote

Jill has over 25 years experience working within employment Law, Human Resources and Organisational Development.

Jill has a law degree and is a CIPD member with over 25 years experience working within Employment Law, Human Resources and Organisational Development.

Jill has a solid operational and managerial background, which she gained from working across several different business sectors and regularly works with organisations of all sizes advising and guiding them through the minefield of managing people effectively with best business practice being demonstrated and maintained.

A highly experienced presenter and trainer, Jill has a presentation style which is lively and informative; using real life examples of best practice within the workplace. Her presenting style ensures the audience leave understanding the content in a clear and concise manner; ensuring the best possible outcomes in an ever changing world of Employment Law and Health and Safety.

Steven Bates

Steven has over 17 years’ experience in business and has a flair for Leadership, HR and Health & Safety.

Steven has over 17 years’ experience in business and has a flair for Leadership, HR and Health & Safety.

In December 2009, Steven set up The Giraffe Group which provides strategic business, property and financial advice to individuals and organisations across the UK.

Steven has previously sat on the Management Committee for Action Foundation which is a registered charity in Newcastle upon Tyne which is committed to social action in the North East of England.

Steven is committed to operating ethically in business and is a student of the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) and the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). Steven is also an expert on staff performance and company culture and is passionate about seeing organisations and individuals reach their potential.

Monica Price

Monica is a regular expert on radio and television working across the UK promoting health & wellbeing.

Monica is a highly professional presenter with a wealth of experience across a number of industries including: travel, IT, food & hospitality, training & consultancy and universities across the UK.

As a health & safety and wellbeing expert / professional trainer & consultant of many years Monica works with companies, both in the UK & worldwide, providing new and innovative training and consultancy in health & safety, food safety, nutrition, health & wellbeing and business management, ensuring due diligence and compliance of the law.

Monica is also an experienced broadcaster and contributes regularly to radio and television demonstrating her expertise in her field.

Her passion is to empower people by giving them the information and tools they need to build a successful, profitable and compliant business.

Gary Cookson

Gary specialises in Human Resources with over 20 years experience of senior leadership roles in a variety of sectors.

Gary Cookson is a portfolio HR, OD and L&D Director doing a mix of self employed, associate and freelance work.

Gary is a CIPD Chartered Fellow, a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute, a qualified coach and member of the Association for Coaching, a Personal Trainer accredited by the REP, a teacher, a qualified workplace mediator, a qualified H&S professional, a distance learning tutor, and more besides.

Career-wise, before launching EPIC, he was Associate HR Director at the DBS, and HR Director at Trafford College. Prior to that Gary was doing HR/OD integration work at a new housing group, and before that he was Head of HR & OD at Golden Gates Housing Trust for 11 years and also experienced working in a call centre, a national charity and an international pharmaceuticals company. Prior to working in HR, Gary qualified as a secondary school teacher (teaching History). He also managed and delivered CIPD programmes for many years and has delivered face to face and distance learning qualifications for a range of providers and awarding bodies.

Andy McLachlan

Andy has filled many roles within his career and you will find his experience in both management and business ownership of value.

Andy McLachlan has filled many roles within his career and you will find his experience in both management and business ownership of value. When it comes to the application of compliance within a business, directors and managers frequently get tied in red tape and confusion, but Andy has a down to earth, yet no nonsense approach to the application of what can seem to most SME businesses a foggy haze.

Through a broad range of working practical examples that he has accrued over the last 20 years he will look to add as much value to your time as possible, ensuring that you leave the room in a more empowered state with some useful management tools and information that you can implement immediately in your business to help you get better results along with a more motivated and focused team.